By Name

Alphabetical Order

By Department

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.

By Office

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.

Kurt Kastorf is a counsel in the Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Appellate and Supreme Court and Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice Groups. He joined the firm in 2012.

Practice

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kastorf was an appellate attorney for the United States Department of Justice, where he worked on more than 120 appeals, including cases before every circuit of the United States Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Kastorf served as lead counsel on several dozen matters, winning every appeal that went to judgment. He developed particular expertise in challenges to federal agency action, complex enforcement actions, environmental and natural resources law, and Indian law.

Before joining the DOJ, Mr. Kastorf was an attorney at an international law firm, representing corporate clients in complex commercial litigation and internal investigations.

While in law school, Mr. Kastorf worked as an extern for both Julie E. Carnes of the Northern District of Georgia and Justice Carol W. Hunstein of the Supreme Court of Georgia. After law school, Kurt clerked for the Hon. Ed. E. Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Mr. Kastorf’s recent pro bono work includes representing clients before the United States Supreme Court in cases involving the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.

Honors & Awards

Selected as a "Rising Star" in the 2013 and 2014 editions of Washington DC Super Lawyers

Publications & News

Last week, the EU’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), held that Member State laws may not categorically prohibit consumers from recovering from cartel members damages attributable to purchases from non-cartel participants that—acting independently—were able to charge inflated prices as a result of market-wide price effects from cartel behavior.

On April 4, 2014, the United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced the first successful extradition of a foreign national to the United States to stand trial for alleged US criminal antitrust law violations.

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an important opinion in Motorola Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp., No. 14-8003, 2014 WL 1243797 (7th Cir. Mar. 27, 2014), part of the LCD flat panel antitrust litigation that has been ongoing since December 2006.

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.